Cameron Wants An ‘English Parliament’!
THE SMITH Commission has announced recommendations that devolution be strengthened, with new powers for the Scottish Parliament to set income tax rates, benefits and...
Construction workers submit 10% pay claim
TRADE UNIONS led by Unite, have submitted a pay claim to the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) seeking a 10 per cent pay increase in...
$30bn FEDERAL AID FINANCES BEAR STEARNS ‘RESCUE’ – first time since 1930s slump
Billions of dollars, euros, pounds and yen were wiped off the world’s stock markets yesterday, as they reacted to the emergency bail-out of US...
Angry Teachers Vote For Strike Ballot Against Pay Cut
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Harrogate voted unanimously on Saturday for a one-day strike against a pay-cutting two per cent...
Sirte Drives Back Nato Mercenaries
LIBYAN government forces yesterday continued to heroically drive back the NATO- backed NTC counter-revolutionaries at Sirte, inflicting deadly blows on the mercenaries. Gadaffi loyalists have...
Labour split over Scottish Referendum!
SCOTTISH Labour may hold a special conference in the spring to decide whether to change its stance on supporting a second Scottish independence referendum. The...
Coalition Split Widening
THE split in the coalition government deepened yesterday, with Deputy Prime Minister Clegg absenting himself from the House of Commons as Prime Minister Cameron...
SMASH 1% PAY CAP! 40,000 nursing vacancies in NHS
THERE are not enough nurses to provide safe patient care, shows a survey released today to coincide with a mass lunchtime demonstration...
One-day strikes are not enough! say striking postal workers
OUTSIDE Holloway Road Post Office yesterday pickets striking for the 13th time drew huge support from the public in opposition to the scandal of...
Verdict A ‘massive Blow’ At Bedroom Tax!
THE Tory government’s flagship Bedroom Tax was delivered a ‘massive blow’ yesterday when Court of Appeal judges declared it to be ‘discriminatory’. The judges’...
Netanyahu’s ‘reshaping of Asia has been shattered’ – Hamas
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the ceasefire Israel eventually clinched with Hezbollah has shattered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘illusion’ of reshaping West Asia...
Manchester SU supports YS March
‘MANCHESTER University Students Union (SU) supports the march because we support the fight for better opportunities for today’s youth,’ said Charlie Cook, the SU...
Felixstowe & Merseyside dockers striking this month!
DOCKERS at Britain’s two major ports – Merseyside and Felixstowe – are to strike together at the end of this month and the beginning...
CUTS FOR THE WORKERS – tax cuts for the rich
TORY Chancellor Osborne delivered a class war Budget yesterday offering whole swathes of new tax breaks for the rich, while hammering benefits, public services,...
Police spied on Lawrence family –convictions took 18 years
A JUDGE-LED public inquiry will be held into the work of undercover police following a review into the original Stephen Lawrence murder investigation. It found...
Grenfell survivors pressured to take sub-standard homes – alleges North Kensington Law Centre
KENSINGTON and Chelsea Council, rather than spend money doing up the 133 empty council-owned houses in the borough, has spent almost £30m on hotels...
Hand over redacted UK torture material! – MPs committee tells US administration
THE House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is to request that the US hands over any material documenting the UK’s role in the...
LDV van plant 810 workers sacked
Birmingham-based vanmaker LDV was yesterday placed into administration by a court, threatening up to 850 jobs and thousands more in the supply chain. In addition...
Criminal charges against Grenfell guilty now! – GMB Congress delegates vote unanimously
A MOTION committing the GMB union to fight for criminal charges to be brought against those responsible for the Grenfell Tower Fire was passed...
Tories Forced Back On Ealing & Charing Cross NHS Cuts
The TORY government has been forced to back down over its hated ‘Shaping a Healthier Future’ (SaHF) NHS cuts and closure programme in north...
UK accused of drone war crimes
THE UK could well be ‘complicit’ in US War Crimes committed using drones, and could face prosecution, a new report released yesterday after...
‘Unlawful Killings’ On Bloody Sunday
The Tory-led coalition government yesterday protested against leaks which revealed that the Saville Inquiry report into Bloody Sunday has found that some of the...
‘Genocide Joe Has Got To Go!’ Says US Working Class
TENS of thousands are mobilising to surround the White House on June 8th in protest against Biden’s complicity in the Israeli genocide in Gaza,...
CLOSING CHASE FARM IS ILLEGAL says Enfield Council
‘AFTER taking legal counsel’s advice, the closure of Chase Farm Hospital would be unlawful,’ Enfield Council warned yesterday. This was its response to the decision...
Markets Shaken By Bank Losses
Billions of pounds, euros and yen were wiped off European and Asian share prices yesterday as markets responded to Tuesday’s collapse on Wall Street...
Hamas reaffirms ‘the right to resist’ Zionists
On YESTERDAY’S second anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle, Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, reaffirmed that its top priority is an immediate end to the...
MILIBAND ADOPTS ‘ONE NATION’ TORY POLICY! – and pledges full support for the private...
LABOUR leader Miliband adopted the traditional Tory slogan of ‘One Nation’ at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday. ‘In this most difficult economic time...
Hamas condemns Israel repeatedly targeting Palestinians at food aid centres
THE Hamas Movement has condemned the repeated targeting of civilians at food aid distribution centres in the Gaza Strip, calling it a war crime...
STRIKE ON! – CWU Executive decides
At 5.20pm yesterday CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes declared that the two days’ strike action today and tomorrow were going ahead and...
Bank of England – Serious Fraud Office investigation!
THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations that the Bank of England rigged the way that money was ‘auctioned’ to banks during the...
General strike needed to support hunger strikers!
THE hunger strikers are ‘losing the ability to speak and stand’, according to Prisoners for Palestine, with the four remaining hunger strikers adding additional...
GM mass meeting demand
WORKERS are resuming work at GM Luton today none the wiser as to what Business Secretary Mandelson told their shop stewards when...
Corbyn Pledges Another 1945
Jeremy Corbyn, speaking at a children’s centre in Corby, Northamptonshire yesterday, announced that ‘we will do everything necessary’ to stop a No Deal Brexit...
Heathrow Conflict Is Set To Widen
New British Airways Chief Executive Willie Walsh, who takes up his post this weekend, plans to sack 6,000 out of BA’s 46,000-strong workforce, starting...
Chagos Islander denied his right to UK citizenship
CHAGOS Islanders demonstrated outside the High Court in London’s Strand yesterday, in support of Dominique Elysse, who is seeking to establish British citizenship. The...
138 GP Surgeries Shut Last Year!
ONE HUNDRED and thirty-eight GP surgeries shut last year, compared to 18 the previous year, the latest GP workforce figures from NHS Digital show,...
GMB official arrested
A GMB National Officer was arrested at the protest against the lockout of 430 workers at BP Saltend, in Hull yesterday morning. GMB national officer...
Three Gaza Protest Youth Freed
THREE youths were immediately freed yesterday after the Court of Appeal shortened two prison sentences and overturned one conviction. Four others had their sentences reduced,...
Greek Two-Day General Strike
GREEK workers are staging an unprecedented two-day general strike today and tomorrow, called by the GSEE (Greek TUC) against Yiorghos Papandreou’s government’s Mid-Term Economic...
13 universities are on verge of bankruptcy!
THIRTEEN universities face ‘a very real prospect’ of insolvency following the coronavirus crisis unless they receive a government bailout, a new report by the...
World Revolution In 2022!
New Year’s statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2022 to all our readers and to...
Junior Doctors Taking 5 Days Of Strike Action
JUNIOR DOCTORS in England will strike for five consecutive days in July, in what is thought to be the longest single period of industrial...
BA–No Deal
The five-day strike by British Airways (BA) cabin crew went ahead at midnight last night after talks between the Unite union and BA management...
Midwives angry over pensions attack
MIDWIVES remain angry over the government’s attack on public sector pensions, warned the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday. Jon Skewes, director of employment...
Privatise Fire Service & NHS plus wage & job cuts – Tory plan for...
HOSPITALS and fire services will be run ‘outside the public sector’ Francis Maude, Tory Cabinet Office minister revealed yesterday, speaking to the Daily Telegraph. Firefighters...














